Voting for America

Every day feels good to be an American, but I especially feel it today on this historic Election Day.  Regardless of who you're voting for, it is phenomenal that we have an African American and a woman on each of the tickets.  As a mother of two young girls, my heart swells – we can honestly tell our children that anyone can be President.  

 

On Mondays, I teach acting exercises to Ella’s kindergarten class and I opened yesterday’s session by telling them I chose to study the craft of acting when I went to college.  I told them when it came time for them to go to college they could choose to study whatever they wanted, just as I did.  I didn’t add because this is America and in America, we are allowed the freedom to choose everything – from what we eat for dinner to what we say in our blogs and, of course, who we vote for.  I mean, these little guys are 5 and wanted to do the "mirror exercise", not hear a speech about the constitution with a version of "God Bless America" in the background.   I'll save that for third grade.

 

Regardless of the outcome of today’s election, I am grateful to live in this fine country, even with all our problems and worries and polarization.  I love that I can write what I want and that you, dear reader, can choose to read me or not.

 

May God bless America.   

 

Oh, I’m grateful for mail-in ballots too.  The weather’s terrible in Seattle today!